I think basketball is just more corrupt than football. There's a whole AAU problem present there that's not present in football.

That may be right. I do wonder, though, if actual arrests for fraud might scare a few cheaters in football into either quitting or squealing. It's one thing to get NCAA sanctions and another to be hauled into court on a felony.

"Among those arrested was James Gatto, director of global sports marketing for Adidas, who was accused of paying high school basketball players or their families for committing to sign with a university sponsored by Adidas. The complaint identifies $250,000 in payments made by Gatto and other co-defendants."

Interesting to see if they "reveal" whom was given payments. You won't have to wait for an NCAA investigation now that the Feds are involved. It will be cut and dried.

I think basketball is just more corrupt than football. There's a whole AAU problem present there that's not present in football.

With good reason. In basketball, you can make your team with one great player so there's a greater reward / risk profile. You can't do that in football -- it (usually) takes massive cheating on an SMU / Ole Miss scale.

"Among those arrested was James Gatto, director of global sports marketing for Adidas, who was accused of paying high school basketball players or their families for committing to sign with a university sponsored by Adidas. The complaint identifies $250,000 in payments made by Gatto and other co-defendants."

Interesting to see if they "reveal" whom was given payments. You won't have to wait for an NCAA investigation now that the Feds are involved. It will be cut and dried.

Could make for an interesting year in college basketball.

Didn't we already suspect that part of why Perry decommitted from us, and committed to Miss State, was because of a possible shoe deal/branding with Adidas?

I do not say this to defend BB in any way- coaches have to win. And Jeff Long has to hire winners. BUT to the large contingent of people on HV who still believe this school should have continued to employ someone who lacked integrity: here are the fruits of that tree. Rick Petino has been sketchy for a long time and now the University that was willing to look past that in the pursuit of championships has a very real chance of having no future in the sport for a very very very long time.

I've been told that the four arrests are a fraction of what's really out there. Supposedly it's happening in football too. The NCAA is a horrible enforcement agency. We'll see if the NCAA is better.

My guess is they're going to put the squeeze on these coaches to try to root out more of the cheaters. (actually law breakers)

Football is pee wee compared to what's going on in basketball. I've seen it for years in the club circuit. I knew the NCAA would never do anything about it, it's like a known understanding between them and the NBA. NCAA benefits by keeping these 1 and done guys for a year and profits off of them, the NBA is happy because that's what their players union wants, and a big grey cloud isn't following these athletes for breaking rules.

Adidas I would imagine. Pretty clear who they are talking about from this article: "Kim said the managers and financial advisers were "circling blue-chip prospects like coyotes" and that "employees of one of the world's largest sportswear companies [was] secretly funneling cash to the families of high school recruits."

If the NCAA had a backbone, schools like Miami would have been penalized heavily when they were caught before and they wouldn't still be doing the same thing over and over. (For example, the Shapiro mess - which paid a lot of players money.)

What is the Crime that was committed? I know it is against NCAA rules but what federal crime says you cant pay someone to go to a particular school?

Money launderingWire fraudTax evasionand I'm sure I am missing a few. You have to also consider these funds were intentionally allocated wrong on the books. You start *** with a publicly traded company and this becomes big deal real quick.

I have always suspected that MA has run an clean program due to the fact that big named recruits knew he wasn't going to play the money game and weren't interested in Arkansas. The bigger names that he did get probably came because of a honest connection with him. I am not surprised that Howland'sname is connected with this because he has proven to be a absolute snake and Pearl as well. I have never liked AAU basketball unless it was run by a high school coach with a decent reputation but those are few and far between

I have always suspected that MA has run an clean program due to the fact that big named recruits knew he wasn't going to play the money game and weren't interested in Arkansas. The bigger names that he did get probably came because of a honest connection with him. I am not surprised that Howland'sname is connected with this because he has proven to be a absolute snake and Pearl as well. I have never liked AAU basketball unless it was run by a high school coach with a decent reputation but those are few and far between

We've always known the AAU circuit was a money funnelling system for college basketball. Some coaches have learned to really get involved with it (Coach K, Roy W., Cal, etc) and some stayed away from it because they hated it like Nolan.